Hugh: I traded the bike for work (resume + LI profile); at a discount but my time/value ratio is flexible.
I don't know if the one I bought it from was the original owner, but I am at least owner #2. Someone along the way had the frame powdercoated in that nice yellow. It's a 1996 frame, still Santa Cruz built, with the later mono-stay-to-seat-tube junction, but with the original type gussets at strategic joints. Components are a mishmash of mid-to-high-end; LX hubs; XTR der; crabon fibre Bontrager crank; high end parallelogram Shimano V brakes (XT? XTR?). I modified it: Swapped out the tubed WTB tires for tubeless Maxxis Ikons, ~56 mm actual width; the straightish bar (forget what) for Origin 8 sweepback with extensions -- cut grip area by 1" each; cut extensions by 1" each; installed triggers and brake levers on the extensions stubs. The bar is probably a good 2" higher than it was originally, with the long and low Nitto stem. (I installed a similarly low, but shorter 8 cm stem; then swapped that one out with the upjutter in the photo.) The drivetrain is: 9 speed cassette, 44/32/22 Bontrager triple; XTR derailleurs and triggers: originals, as bought. I dropped the 11-32 9 sp cassette to this, which gives me a 65" cruising gear in straight-as-arrow-chainline 44 X 18. The chart doesn't show the gears on the 22 t granny, obviously. 26.75 44 32 13 91 66 15 78 57 17 69 50 18 65 48 20 59 43 22 54 39 24 49 36 28 42 31 32 27 On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:26 AM, Hugh Smitham <hughsmit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > By the way that's a great looking rig. What are the specs? Drive? Wheels > and tires? Looks like you updated the drive train to 9 speed. Are you the > original owner? > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
